Luggage carrier



July 5 1927.

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UNITED STATES I 1,634,590 PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB F. MARTIN, OF BELLEVUE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE BELLEVUE MANUFACTIJ'R- ING COMPANY, OF BELIJEVUE, OHIO, A.CORPORATION OF OHIO.

. I LUGGAGE CARRIER.

Application filed November 15, 1926. Serial No.148,366.

This invention relates to improvements in luggage carriers for use principally on auto mobiles. I V

The object of the invention is .to provide a luggage carrier which may be positioned at a relatively low point on an automobile,

thereby providing a strong installation and I permitting a trunk to be carried at a height which will best conform to the general lines I I bars of the chassis, whereby the machine is of the automobile. g

.On some cars, such low installation of the luggage carrier will bring it close to the gas tank intake and it is an object of the present invention to provide the carrier with means to elevate the platform thereof,

which is adapted to receive a trunk or other luggage, so that it may be moved away from the tank intake, thereby permitting ready access thereto when it is desired to fill the And a further object of my invention is to equip my luggage carrier with means for supporting a spare tire carrier.

These several objects are carried outin' practice by the arrangement and construction' hereinafter described in detail. In the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a rear elevation of myimproved luggage carrier secured to a bumper;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the devices shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the luggage carrier with the platform in elevated posi-;

tion;

Fig. 4 is a end view of the carrier showing the platformflocked in its normal or horizontal position;

, Fig. 5 is a like view showing the platform.

locked in its elevated position.

In these drawings the numeral 1 designates the main or cross bar of a. conventional rear bumper, but it will be understood that in the absence of a bumper the cross bar of the chassis frame may be utilized, the drawings being merely illustrative of the appli cation of the invention to a car equipped with a rear bumper. In the present instance, the buinper is shown equipped at mobile chassis.

its ends with socalled bum'perettes indicated by thenumeral 2 which form protection' for the reai'fenders of the automobile. This rear bumper is equipped with brackets 3 secured to the crossbar 1 by the fasteningdevices atand extending rearwardly and secured to the side bars 5 of the usual auto- Bolts and nuts Gare eniploy'ed to fasten the brackets 3 to tlieside at the rear, thereby providing protection for the trunk or luggage, as well as a means for mounting a t recarrier, as will hereinafter appear. As here shownthe carrier is sustained at the rear by the bumper, 'cross' bar 1, angle's'pacers 12 being secured to the bar and to'the horizontal portion of the supporting members 10 by bolts andnuts 13, thus forming arigid connection between the angle irons andfbumpers. The portion of the carrier which is to be mounted adjacent the body of the automobile may be provided with any suitable form of' attachment adapted to the particular type of car to which it is to be applied. In the present instance I have shown the carrier applicable to a Star 4 and 6 coach in which cross bars 14 are rigidly secured at points adjacent the ends ofthe horizontal portions of the memhere 10, as by fastening devices 15. These bars may be secured to one another, shown at 16, and are provided with slots 17 which match with holes in the body or gas tank cover of the automobile to receive suitable fastening devices, whereby the carrier is attached to the body of the automobile. I

In order that the trunk carrier may be placed on the automobile at apointwhich will give it the most substantial installation in the case of some cars at a point close to the gasoline tank, it is necessary to provide means for elevating the trunk or luggage when it is desired to put gas into the tank.

To this end I have provided the carrier with a platform which may be elevated and locked in either its elevated or normal position. The means for accomplishing this re sult consists of a platform 18 pivotally se cured to the horizontal portion of one of the angle irons by hinges l9. Rig-idly secured to the horizontal portion of the other angle iron 10 is a bracket 20 having projections in the nature of ears between which is .pivotally mounted at 21 one end of a bar 22, the opposite end of which is pivotally secured at 23 betweenfork members 24, the upper diverging outer ends of which are piv otally mounted in angle members 25 which are rigidly secured to the cross bar 26 of the platform, the bar 22 and fork 24 constituting a toggle joint. i l "hen the platform .of the carrier is'in normal or horizontal 'p'osition', the parts constituting the elevating locking devices are in the position shownin Fig. 4, with the bar 22 and the fork member 24 beyond dead center position, thus firmly securing the platform to the angle iron sup ports] 10.

When it is desired toelevate one end of.

the platform for access to the gasoline tank the operator grasps the lower extremity of the fork members and pulls them toward himself until the bar 22 and fork 2l are in substantially horizontal position when such end of the platform may be elevated until the toggle members are in extreme extended or vertical position. The elevation of oneenid will cause the platform to assume a tilting position, whereby access may be had to the gasoline tank even whe'na trunk or other luggage is being carried by the platform. v

In order to maintain one end of the platform in elevated position, as shown in Fig. 5, the toggle members are pushed forwardly past dead center until the bar 22' strikes the horizontal angle member 10, thus rigidly fastening the platform in its extreme tilting position. To lower the platform to normal orhorizon'tal position, the operator takes hold of the platform and raises it up and pulls the center of the fork 24 out past dead center. The platform may then be-lower'e'd'to its normal position and rigidly held in such position by pushing the lower end of the fork back until it throws past dead center and strikes the horizontal angle member 10.

l/Vhile I have shown and described the elevating and securing means as located at the ends of the carrier I wish it to be understood that such means may be applied at the sides instead of the ends, and the platform elevated lengthwise instead of endwise should such construction be desired.

Then it is desired to carry a spare tire at the rear of the automobile equippedwith my luggage carrier an angle" bracket 27 may be rigidly secured to' each angle iron 10, pins essary to adapt it to any ai'itom'obile as also" other uses. p 7 V IIHVlDgIhHS fully described my invention,

what I claim as" new] and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is':

1. In a luggage carrier, supporting angle" irons, a bracket secured to oneof said angle" irons, a platform hinged to one of said ang 'e' irons, and pivotally connected to said bracket, said pivotal connection compriS ng a bar pivotaliy mounted. in said bracket; fork members pivoted to said bar at one endaiid to said platform at the other end, whereby said platform may be elevated and held in either its'rz'rised or low'eredgposit on's.

2. In a lug a e carrier si'i""ortin ".meiri db 6 G bers, apla'tfo'rin pivotally secured td one of said members, and means secured to the other of said members and to said platferin for moving said platform away said other supporting member in'to' an, inclined position andfor rigidly maintaining it in such nclined position.

3. In a luggage carrier, supporting merrihers, a platform adapted to be supported in a substantially horizontal plane by said members, ineaiis'fojr pivotall'y securing said platform to one of said'meinbers, means for moving said platform fromsiich horizontal position to an inclined position, said last mentioned means comprising elevatingin'enihers secured to the platform and other sup: porting member. j

4-. The combination with a higgagecarrier adapted to be mounted on an automobile comprising supporting members, a platform adapted to be supported in a substantially horizontal plane by said.inembers, means-for pivotally securing said platform to one of said members, and means for moving said platform from such horizontal position to an inclined position, said last mentioned means" comprising elevating members-secured to the platform and other supporting member, of a cross bar adapted to be secured to the chassis of an automobile, means for rigidly connecting said supporting members and saidcross bar, and other means to connect the carrier supporting members to the automobile.

5. The combination with a" luggage carrieradapted to be mounted on an automobile comprising supporting meinbers, a platform adapted to besupport'ed in a substantially horizontal plane by said members, means for pivotally securing said platform to one of said members, means for moving said platform fromsuch horizontal position to an 1n-' clined position comprising elevating members secured to the platformand the other supporting member, a cross bar adapted to be secured to the chassis of an automobile,'

means for rigidly connecting said supporting members and said cross bar, and other means to connect the carrier supporting 10 'members to the automobile, of other devices JACOB F. MARTIN. 

